velocity

Other forms of velocity

plural

velocities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about velocity

What does velocity mean?

velocity means "distance travelled per unit time".

How many syllables are in velocity?

velocity has 4 syllables: ve-lo-ci-ty. The stress falls on "lo". In IPA it is /vəˈlɑsəti/.

What is another word for velocity?

Close synonyms include speed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is velocity a common word?

velocity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.